Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a dramatist's point of view, the Scopes trial is very much a Good Thing, because it brought together two magnificent figures--William Jennings Bryan and the great lawyer, Clarence Darrow. As an added attraction there was H.L. Mencken, who reported the story for his Baltimore newspaper. The climax of the play comes in the confrontation scene between the two giants, when the quiet, gallus-snapping Darrow, acting for the defense, calls prosecutor Bryan to the witness chair and exposes his Bible-belting oratory as so much hot air. A most exciting scene, this, and much of the excitement...
Although not all of the six persons represented in Monday's program proved themselves creators to be taken seriously, the experience was certainly profitable. The original function of the Composers' Laboratory, as providing a testing ground for the fledgling, was fully realized, and from this point of view the concert was a success...
...result of this poverty amid plenty, the study of International Relations, as a discipline strictly seperated from its logical components, has fallen into general intellectual disrepute. In the College, able concentrators are often discouraged from pursuing an education in a sub-area that they view as an intellectual tundra, turning to other fields or to other aspects of Government. The trend is repeated among graduate students, who either go elsewhere for a broad training in international problems or enroll in the more strictly defined regional studies programs. At present, there are fewer than ten graduate students involved...
...Longfellow, a selection from her letters and journals, gives a few clues to Fanny's dim view of Longfellow's suit. For one thing, she already had a more interesting mind than his. She was well read and neither life nor people fooled her. At 19 she could look back uneasily on "childhood, innocence and ignorance, before the down is rubbed off and the skeleton in all things revealed, and that fiend Doubt become our fireside companion." A bit morbid, perhaps, but still more acute than anything young Henry had yet written. She could also be cattily tart...
Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, proposed last night as a "Untopian view," a secular Divinity School with no single religious commitment but with a "voice for all religious...